*By Akadu Ntiriwa Mensema, Ph. D.
“Former President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings says long-term friends of Ghana
such as Russia and China owe it a duty to make known their observations about
political developments in the country ‘on account of the bumpy roads we have
been through in the past.’ He said Ghana is going through challenges with its
multi-party democratic process and ‘we need support and advice from our friends.
We owe it to the future of our relationships’” (Ghanaweb Sept 4, 2010).
Our deep national lunacy
National follies are flowering
Pioneered by JJ Rawlings
With his broken mental furniture
He who knows it all, all
He who has no answers
Lunacy of mediocre leaders
Mirrored by JJ Rawlings
Intemperate foaming
Impetuous harangues
Impatient in thought
JJ who gave us Mills
Born of his Swedru self-orgy
JJ has called Mills names
All the cloying cruel names
Now JJ’s anti-Millsims is clear
Still craving for authoritarianism
Chinese and Russian models
Still craving for neocolonialism
Russians to support our democracy
Chinese to support our democracy
JJ & African leaders
Oh! Africans let us look within
Search for local alternatives
JJ he who demonizes all
Knows it all – right from wrong
Has never done the right things
Stole Air Force plane seats
Thumped wee at the youth
Unaccounted fifty-cedi notes
Kangaroo courts
Seized assets
Sold national assets to cronies
Criminalized Makola women
Murdered judges
Killed numerous others
Curfew & abduction
Shit-bombed press houses
Stolen wealth & materialistic life
Beat up Arkaah
BONFIRES at Ridge
FIRE-ING anti-Nkrumahism
FIRE-ING anti-Liman Socilaists
FIRE-ING anti-Kufour Ataa Ayis
FIRE-ING anti-Mills foot-soldiers
Yesterday JJ was a dictator
Today JJ is anti-democratic
Parades in Western designer suits
Uses democratic rhetoric
Turns to Russia, China
For democratic credentials
JJ wants to kill the cat
Stomach politicians clap
Elites that think in herds
Political hyenas in suits
Shallow Rawlings in politics
Self- elevated expectation
JJ is his own victim
Rawlings’s victory lap
Small-minded
Preposterous
Shadowed by mental spasms
Spasms of self righteousness
Atta Mills is lost
Ghana is shipwrecked
Snailing on the sea of Atta Snail
Painting mirages in the horizon
NDC toxins unleashed on Ghanaians
JJ Rawlings
The self-righteous tin-god
The Chief Fireman of Ridge
The killer of the judges
He who knows it all
Genealogies of our failures
He who has born it all
Born rabid dogs - Amedeka
Born barber-thieves – ET Mensah
Born Socialist thieves: Ahwois
Born violence: Makola women
Born foot-soldiers: seizing toilets
Born rich politicians: PV Obengs
JJ the architect of all our woes
JJ Rawlings just foams
Foams at the mouth
Cotton-wool head
Full of barren thoughts
JJ tell us about Russian democracy
JJ tell us about Chinese democracy
JJ tell us about Western democracy
JJ and African leaders
Tell us about African democracies
Africans let us look within
Search for local alternatives
Oh, killers of the dream
*Akadu N. Mensema, Ph. D., is a nationalist Denkyira beauty. She is a trained
oral historian cum sociologist and Professor in the USA. She lives in
Pennsylvania with her great mentor and teaches Africa-area studies at a college
in Maryland. In her pastime, she writes what critics have called “populist
hyperbolic, satirical” poetry. She can be reached at akadumensema@yahoo.com
